Title :
Performance evaluation of digitized RF-over-fiber transport link
Author :
Yang, Yizhuo ; Lim, Christina ; Gamage, Prasanna ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We experimentally evaluated the performance of digitized RF-over-fiber link. The EVM decreases with carrier frequency and symbol rate, but independent of sampling rate. And 8-bit resolution is sufficient to construct a high-performance cost-effective digitized RF link.
Keywords :
optical links; radio-over-fibre; EVM; RF-over-fiber transport link; carrier frequency; symbol rate; word length 8 bit; Analog-digital conversion; Bit rate; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical fiber communication; Quantization; RF signals; Radio frequency; Sampling methods; Signal analysis; Signal resolution; ADC resolution; EVM performance; digitized RF over fiber; received SNR;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343329
